Brazil has more trees than any country except Russia—but when our huge forests make the news, it’s usually because of “deforestation.” My nation and its Amazon region are so incomprehensibly big that ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She’s ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian environment agency Ibama has notified 12 meatpacking plants, including two operated by JBS SA, of an inspection into their alleged involvement in a scheme to buy cattle ...

Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil's "King of Cattle," great wealth - and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting workers to slavery-like ...

UBERABA, Brazil — Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over by security cameras, a veterinarian and an armed guard.

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The removal of hundreds of cattle raised illegally on public land designated for sustainable forest use in Brazil's Amazon has sparked protests and divided residents, with some ...

American hamburgers are increasingly financing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest In a crackdown on the illegal cattle ranching that causes the tree felling, the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, ...

In southeastern Brazil, bovine beauty pageants help determine the most genetically desirable cows in the world — and these “supercows” are changing the meat farming industry as we know it. In Brazil’s ...

Brazil is a custodian to two thirds of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest. The biome is home to millions of Brazilians, including hundreds of Indigenous peoples and traditional communities, ...